Use Customer Match partners to upload data

Certain Google-integrated third parties can use a partner API to create Customer Match audiences directly in your Google Ads account. These types of third-party companies include data management platforms (DMPs), customer relationship management (CRM) onboarding services and agencies. This article describes the benefits of using a third party to help upload your customer data to Google Ads, and lists the companies that can do it for you.

Benefits

Using a third-party company to upload your data is a good option for many advertisers for the following reasons:

Some advertisers want to outsource list onboarding and refreshes instead of creating an in-house Google Ads API (AdWords API) integration or using the Google Ads interface to upload.

You can use additional first-party customer information, such as their postal address, phone number or alternative email, to increase your list size. These companies use proprietary identity maps to find emails corresponding to your customers’ phone numbers and postal addresses, and append these emails to your existing email list prior to performing the upload.

Availability

Currently, the following companies are approved to upload Customer Match lists, with two different levels of service:

Companies that can only upload your data for you:

Salesforce

PMG

Sailthru

Marketo

Experian Marketing Services

Adobe Media Optimiser

mParticle

LeadsBridge

Companies that can expand your Customer Match audiences using your customers’ postal addresses and phone numbers, and then upload your data for you:

LiveRamp

Neustar

Merkle

Epsilon

Oracle Data Cloud

Acxiom

Restrictions

You'll need to have your Google Ads account approved to use a data-uploading service.

You must work with a Google-integrated third party.

Data uploaded to Google Ads must be collected in compliance with Customer Match policies.

Bear in mind: Customer Match is only available on Google Search, Gmail and YouTube. Customer Match is available for TrueView ads in Display & Video 360.

Instructions

Once you've picked the company that you'd like to use to upload your data, follow these steps:

Wait until Google sets up data access. After you've sent your email permission to Google, your Google representative will need to sync your accounts with your partner's system. It can take a couple of days for your accounts to be approved after you've sent in your information. You'll receive an email from your Google representative letting you know when you're all set up.

Send your data to your partner. Once your accounts are approved and set up, you can start sending data to your uploading partner.